The Power of Oxygen 1st
When my son was little, I was a single mom who was doing it all alone. I was putting everyone else first and my own needs last. To everyone around me, I was successful but little did they know that my success was tied to pushing, stressing, sleepless nights and early morning workouts pushing my body and my limits to the extreme. Until one day I was flying alone and nearly crashed an airplane and I realized that I needed to take care of my own needs first before anyone else. You see, when you’re a pilot, if you have any issues in the plane, you put on your oxygen mask 1st, not your passengers. They need you to land the plane.
This podcast is all about this journey to healing, to getting clear on the desires of your heart… and stepping into them with courage while leaning into, asking for and receiving support. I hope you feel inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live: a life filled to the brim with epic ADVENTURE.
The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 96: Goodbye 2025: Shedding Old Selves, Speaking Truth, and Building a Life That Feels Like Oxygen
Some years don’t just change you, they strip you down to the truth of who you are.
This episode offers a gentle exhale, a closing ceremony for the year that asked more of you than you expected and revealed more strength than you knew you had.
2025 was a shedding year. A raw year. A year of truth-telling, boundary-setting, and becoming. In this love letter and goodbye letter, I am sharing the deeply personal moments that defined my most transformative season: moving cities, protecting myself and my son, speaking truth, releasing old identities, and allowing myself to crumble and rebuild.
This episode is for any woman who survived something hard this year, who shed parts of herself she once clung to, or who’s ready to honor the version of herself that kept going even when the ground shifted beneath her.
Takeaways
- Shedding—big or small—requires profound bravery and deserves to be witnessed.
- Truth-telling shifts your life in ways you can’t predict but always need.
- Your hardest moments reveal your resilience, intuition, and capacity.
- You are not rebuilding who you were; you are expanding into who you’re becoming.
- Your new life needs space—slow, grounded space—to root and grow.
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Remember: your energy is your greatest asset. Protect it, invest in it, and always put your oxygen mask on first.
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Remember: your energy is your greatest asset. Protect it, invest in it, and always put your oxygen mask on first.
